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My Garden Diaries :: RE: Gordon's Garden Diary

Author: gordonf
Subject: Jacarandas
Posted: 7 Nov '09 6:45 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 922

Wow, Jack, thanks for the pics of Jacaranda trees with all the vines in them! They're beautiful!! And what a celebration of my (possibly) finding the solution to my imaging problem!

I don't think I've ever seen a real Jacaranda tree, at least not in bloom, and I never realized how lovely they are, especially when they're hosting all the climbing plants that are equally floriferous.

Thanks for your thoughtfulness!

Cheers!

gordonf
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My Garden Diaries :: RE: Gordon's Garden Diary

Author: jack two
Subject: Jacarandas are COLOURFUL!
Posted: 6 Nov '09 8:06 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 922

In celebration, Gordon, two photos.

The first I took in Johannesburg last weekend; the Bougainvilleas (Bougainvillea glabra) growing into Jacarandas (Jacaranda mimosifolia) are iconic in Jhb, in shades from brick red to dark purple, but this is, I believe, the best I've ever seen as a composition! The Pretoria pic is from an area where the average temperature is a good 5 degrees warmer; there are three different climbers into the Jacaranda; Bougainvillea (scarcely visible here), Zimbabwe creeper (Podranea ricasoliana)and Trumpet Vine (Bignonia radicans). In addition there is a Brugmansia (Brugmansia candida) on the pavement and between it and the Jacaranda in the garden there is an Australian Flame Tree ( Brachychiton Acerifolius ).

What a sight!!!

My Garden Diaries :: RE: Gordon's Garden Diary

Author: gordonf
Subject: Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden
Posted: 6 Nov '09 7:42 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 922

Hello again, all!

I was just playing around on UTube and found this explanatory video about the history of the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden in Vancouver. Since so many of my pictures of it have been spoiled, I thought some of you might like to take a look at this video. It's part of two.

Here's the address: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOzpIYox2mQ&feature=related

Just click on it to view. Enjoy!

Cheers!

gordonf
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My Garden Diaries :: RE: Gordon's Garden Diary

Author: gordonf
Subject: Yet Another Try
Posted: 6 Nov '09 7:02 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 922

Well, I've been busy playing around with my photo editor and I FINALLY discovered a place where it was checked to save images as black and white!!! So I played with the "panorama" feature and finally got this combined image of 2 panels of an oil painting of an African street scene. Let's see what happens this time! I chose this one because of the colourful plant background.

Cheers!

gordonf
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General Gardening Chat :: RE: Please Help my 'Aeonium arboreum/Black rose' Succulent Plant

Author: Sea_Sonnet
Subject: 'Aeonium arboreum/Black rose'
Posted: 6 Nov '09 6:23 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 2

Perhaps you are showering this plant with too much loving attention. Treat them mean, very little in the way of fertilizer and water seems to be what mine respond to.

The stems that have grown way too long could be cut back to 5-6 inches back from the head end and shoved (yes shoved) into some free draining coarse sand - stand back and watch them pick up. Don't over water them - just a trickle once a week is plenty.

If you're at all unsure of this method, just try it with one or two stems and see what happens.

Hope this helps

General Gardening Chat :: RE: Silly question about Hollyhocks

Author: Sea_Sonnet
Subject: Hollyhocks
Posted: 6 Nov '09 5:53 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 4

I have moved from cool temperate climate of western Victoria to a heavenly warm sub-tropical climate on the mid-north coast of New South Wales, and am establishing a cottage garden at the front door, and my tropical oasis in the back yard - we're on a 3,600sqm block of ground. Things seem to grow before your eyes here. I have a packet of hollyhock seeds in my hand, and am about to give them a go here - just as soon as the torrential rain abates. Everything rusts here

Wish me luck!!

My Garden Diaries :: RE: Gordon's Garden Diary

Author: MacFlax
Posted: 5 Nov '09 9:18 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 922

Quote:

The fellow in the blue jacket is the guide on the tour. The other one is me.

Very helpful. I'm loving the photos anyway. Hope you can sort the problem out soon.

My Garden Diaries :: RE: Gordon's Garden Diary

Author: Kerole
Posted: 5 Nov '09 6:21 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 922

Ah Jeez Gord, I feel for you! Lord knows, you're trying your hardest.

My Garden Diaries :: RE: Gordon's Garden Diary

Author: gordonf
Subject: Other Picture Formats
Posted: 5 Nov '09 4:08 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 922

Here I am again, folks! Well, I've been playing around with my imaging programme, and to do it without possibly losing an important picture, I took this one of a new flower pot I bought the other day to replace the hollowed-out log that I had been using by the front gate. It was split into 2 pieces when the car ran into my front a couple of weeks ago. I bought this Golden Irish Yew (Taxus bacc. Fastigata Aurea, 2 white heathers (Erica x darleyensis), and 10 "Jack Snipe" Narcissus bulbs to plant in it for a winter arrangement. In spring, I plan to remove the heathers and replace them with white petunias or white wax begonias for summer.

Anyway, I converted the picture in size to 800 x 600 as I always do, then saved it as a Jpeg and as a Tiff. Let's see if it changes to black and white again, of if Moosey's server refuses it this time!

Cheers!

gordonf

p.s.- The Tiff. image, at 600 x 800, was too big, so I'll try to reduce it a bit.
p.p.s.- Still too big. Hmmm...
p.p.p.s - I reduced it by half again and here's the image. When I clicked on it, it appeared as a Quicktime image. Did any of you find that?
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My Garden Diaries :: RE: Kerole's Place

Author: Kerole
Subject: Vege garden? What vege garden?
Posted: 3 Nov '09 10:19 am (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 52

Hmmmm. My vege garden is growing a fantastic display of nasturtiums and honey worts! Not the intended items for our usual menu.

My Garden Diaries :: RE: Gordon's Garden Diary

Author: gordonf
Subject: A Further Experiment
Posted: 2 Nov '09 8:26 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 922

Well, here I am again. Tonight I broke down and paid my US$30. to get a licence to enable me to save my resized pictures so I can upload them. Let's hope it works - instead of a thumbnail image in MY file, it just shows an icon which is the same for each image. This makes it really hard to select the ones I want to upload, but it's better than not having them at all, eh? Maybe there's a preference item I need to turn on to get the image; I'll have to search around and look for it.

Anyway, here goes: this picture is of one of the many special little corners in the Scholar's Garden that I've been attempting to show you for the last few days. I'm crossing my fingers !

Cheers, all!

-gordonf

Well, that didn't work; Moosey's won't accept JP2 images, and that's the only kind this new licence gives me!
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My Garden Diaries :: RE: Kerole's Place

Author: gordonf
Subject: Wow!
Posted: 2 Nov '09 8:18 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 52

Wow, Kerole - What lovely pictures!! I didn't get a reminder that there was a post on your thread, so I would have missed it if I hadn't logged in to try another experiment with my picture uploading (more about that on my thread!).

How beautiful your allee of cherry trees is - did you plant them all?? And that "Golden Showers" rose against the dark background - wonderful!!

I loved your iris flowers; I just began cutting the leaves from mine for the winter today, and I saw my first "in the flesh" reblooming iris flowering in one of the city parks yesterday.

Enjoy Spring - I'm sort of looking forward to winter and a bit of a rest from the garden, but your pictures make me anxious for MY Spring!! Thanks for posting!!

Cheers!

gordonf
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My Garden Diaries :: RE: Kerole's Place

Author: Kerole
Subject: A Belated Spring Post
Posted: 2 Nov '09 1:18 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 52

Well Spring seemed to arrive here all of a sudden and before I knew it, was heading full tilt toward Summer! I managed to take some photos of the property along the way but they are not a true representation of the fantastic Spring flush we have had.

The roses in particular are superb this year but I've yet to get 'round to taking proper pictures of them.

My Garden Diaries :: RE: Gordon's Garden Diary

Author: gordonf
Subject: Oohh!!!
Posted: 1 Nov '09 5:50 pm (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 922

Hi, Jack, and thanks for the sympathy!

I still haven't got to the bottom of my problem with the pictures; perhaps I'll look around for another downloadable imaging programme to try. Did I tell you that I found all of my pictures, in living colour, on another programme? I just can't seem to move them back to where they SHOULD be. Well, where there's life, there's hope, and since neither the computer or I have "died", I have confidence that a solution will show up eventually.

By the way, a friend who is moving and who shared in my giant seed purchase a couple of months ago, brought me a bunch of blue poppy seedlings today. He is unexpectedly moving to an apartment and won't have room this winter to continue growing them. Now I'm wondering exactly what to do with them, as they are just beginning to get second leaves and I think it's too cold at night to leave them outside until they are a bit larger. Then I might put a few of them into the coldframe for the winter and try to keep the rest indoors under lights.

Here are a few of my Sun Yat-Sen Garden pictures that are showing in colour on the computer. Let's hope they appear that way on Moosey's!

Cheers!

gordonf

p.s.- Both of these pics appeared in colour on my computer; what can be happening???
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Moosey's Rose Forum :: RE: Compassion Rose is not flowering! Can you advise me ?...

Author: jack two
Subject: Oh sorry - 2 years ago
Posted: 1 Nov '09 5:35 am (GMT 12)
Topic Replies: 2

All still holds true, except that the root/plant balance might need more careful attention. If the roots look withered and unenthusiastic I would replace with a new rose, replacing the soil as well - at least 60 x 60 x 60 !